Virtual Machine Console in vCenter is Opened by VMware Workstation

If you have VMware Workstation and VMware Remote Console both installed on Windows 10 you may see vCenter virtual machine console in vSphere Web Client is opened by VMware Workstation instead of VMware Remote Console. If you see same case your VMware Remote Console may be hijacked. I call it “hijack” since there is no easy way to revert it back.

There is only one article I found in internet talks about same issue. VMware Workstation 12 Hijacks VMware Remote Console. I tried the way but somehow it doesn’t work on my computer. Probably I’m Windows 10. So I dig into it a little bit, found following workaround eventually.

Find where is vmrc.exe of VMware Remote Console installed. In my case it’s located in C:\Program Files (x86)\VMware\VMware Remote Console\vmrc.exe.

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